It doesn’t sound anything like The Fly. Why does every new track/album need to get the AB comparison treatment? It sounds kinda cool I guess. Nothing overly encouraging.
Btw I just listened to pop for the first time in ages! Damn what an awesome album! Mofo and please are still sounding as awesome as the first time I heard them!
I feel the same way about the Best Thing...progression from “wtf is this” to “meh” to “love it”....I honestly don’t get tired of listening to it.
Thanks for the link! Too bad none of the links seems to work on iPhone so I'll wait till I get home tonight and dl on the computer.
Ps: Back to the discussion that TBT is the worst ever song u2 ever made in the last 20 years. I would disagree, Grace for me IS the worst song u2 ever made. Period. That song puts me to sleep lol. And I can think of quite a few other songs worse than the best thing or the new songs we've heard. Again to each their own and I can only really comment on the best thing really since it's the only studio quality one we have. I'll reserve final judgement on ththe other 3 until we hear the album versions BUT they do sound promising. I wouldn't call them the worst ever or garbage, not by a long shot.
The Best Thing is definitely not U2's worst song ever - that's Elvis Ate America, or if we don't count Passengers (which is otherwise brilliant, the person who derided it earlier in the thread mustn't have ears to hear the beauty of Slug, Your Blue Room, Beach Sequence, etc.), then it's Stand Up Comedy or A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel. But Best Thing is definitely in the bottom thirty. I can't believe a band with such experience as U2 would write a song that is so utterly clumsy. It's amateur hour. Even most of the pre-Boy demos have a better structure (we won't speak about Tonight).
And the pre-album hype of "as good as/better than Achtung" is just daft, and looks even more daft a year or two down the track. Recall all the dumb shit said talking up HTDAAB and NLOTH.
It is huh. Wasn't a fan on its release. But it's awesome. Velvet Dress and Dead Man. The heaviest end to an album ever.
If we're talking official album tracks, there are a handful of songs I dislike more than TBT. And mostly they are songs I will literally not listen to and skip every time. Before No Line there wasn't a single U2 album where I would actually skip a song; not saying I love everything but nothing that really offended me.
2. Crazy Tonight (Bono's faltering falsetto on "haven't hearrrrd" is the worst moment of any U2 song, testicle-crushing embarrassment)
But there's some great material there. Lazarus's 'testicle crushing' line was good.Hey look, another thread that's turned into a "let's shit on U2" thread with a bunch of people repeating themselves again and again. How original.
But there's some great material there. Lazarus's 'testicle crushing' line was good.
And to be fair, while a bit enthusiatic they're not really wrong...
The Best Thing is definitely not U2's worst song ever - that's Elvis Ate America, or if we don't count Passengers (which is otherwise brilliant, the person who derided it earlier in the thread mustn't have ears to hear the beauty of Slug, Your Blue Room, Beach Sequence, etc.), then it's Stand Up Comedy or A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel.
Well, there's also this... while it lasts:
And yes, the double-backed the vocals on "Fred", Fred
This sounds incredible, real hybrid of dance/rock.
I'm very excited to hear the full album cut.
Fair enough, everyone's entitled to their own opinion
Hey look, another thread that's turned into a "let's shit on U2" thread with a bunch of people repeating themselves again and again. How original.
Yeah, I get really tired of that, too. New material comes out, I come here to share enthusiasm with my fellow fans, only to find everyone complaining about it. It's depressing. I can't wait to hear how much everyone hates SOE when it's finally released!
Wait wait wait.
You put Room at the Heartbreak Hotel among U2’s WORST songs. Like, absolute worse. Axver you madman! I was on board with your list until then!
Or maybe people are excited for the music but are more interested in the deeper cuts instead of ones that are meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator and were being changed at the last minute in keeping with the band's worst second-guessing habits?
I'm also an enthusiastic fan who had nothing but praise for The Blackout. If you only want to hang out with Mouseketeers you're in the wrong place.
people who demand relentless positivity
Or maybe people are excited for the music but are more interested in the deeper cuts instead of ones that are meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator and were being changed at the last minute in keeping with the band's worst second-guessing habits?
I'm also an enthusiastic fan who had nothing but praise for The Blackout. If you only want to hang out with Mouseketeers you're in the wrong place.
That's a major exaggeration.
And you know people here are still going to hate the "deeper cuts."